On the 11th, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' Gyeonggi Regional Small and Medium Venture Business Administration (Director Kim Han-sik) held the '2022 Gyeonggi Startup FLEX' at the Pangyo Startup Zone with about 200 people in attendance under the theme of 'Showing off presence and sharing experience and value.' It was held.

The event was held jointly by seven start-up support organizations, including Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center, Suwon University, Sungkyunkwan University, Kyonggi University, Bucheon Industry Promotion Agency, and Seongnam Industry Promotion Agency, to spread the start-up venture boom in the Gyeonggi region. It was held in three sessions: Up, Show-Up, and Meet-Up.

Among these, the 'Next Unicorn/Excellent Manager Contest' was held in the show-up session with the purpose of providing an opportunity to discover prospective unicorns and benchmark best practices in startup support by holding a contest for successful startups and startup support.

The 'Next Unicorn' selection screening was divided into the scale-up category and the jump-up category, and INEEJI Co., Ltd. (CEO Jaesik Choi) won the grand prize, the Minister of SMEs and Startups Award, in the scale-up category. 

INEEJI was founded in 2019 by Professor Jaesik Choi, who currently serves as the director of the Explainable Artificial Intelligence Research Center at KAIST Kim Jae-cheol Graduate School of AI (Director Jeong Song) and the director of the KAIST Explainable Artificial Intelligence Research Center, and top researchers in the field of explainable artificial intelligence. As a business founded by a professor, the company developed “INFINITE OPTIMAL SERIES™,” an AI solution for industrial process optimization and predictive maintenance, using its own domestic technology.

INEEJI is a company that provides the world's most accurate AI prediction service and is leading the intelligence and advancement through artificial intelligence in all industries beyond industrial automation with the world's best explainable artificial intelligence solution.

Jaesik Choi, CEO of INEEJI, said, “We are grateful for the recognition of Ineasy’s technological prowess and potential as a result of our efforts to accelerate corporate intelligence and digital innovation by providing explainable AI solutions in various industries.” “We will strive to become a unicorn company that constantly leaps and develops by expanding the value and technology of INEEJI, which is an artificial intelligence capability that makes it profitable, not only domestically but also in overseas markets,” he said. .

Kim Han-sik, head of the Gyeonggi Regional Small and Medium Venture Business Administration, said, “We will share experiences and values ​​so that startups can show off their performance and skills, and we will actively support them so that they can grow infinitely.”

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